by David Brooks | Feb 17, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
COVID is still around (close to 100 people are hospitalized with COVID in NH every day and that figure is not going down, as my chart shows) and we’re still learning how to deal with it. The feds have issued new guidelines (yeah, I know, but they’re the...
by David Brooks | Feb 17, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve reported many time on efforts to restore the American chestnut with a genetically modified version that isn’t affected by the blight. (Here’s a story from last June.) If approved by regulators, it was going to be the first GMO tree released in...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
WMUR has a quick story about a development of “tiny homes” – under 400 sq. ft. – in Dover. Here it is. When seacoastonline did a story, they called them “cottage homes” which is less sexy and probably worse for SEO but maybe more...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
When you start a scientific research project, you never know what you’re going to find. Here’s one thing that Devon O’Rourke found during his Ph.D. work at UNH: “I did not suspect that so many folks were going to be that excited about picking up bat guano.” This...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
From ISO New England: (whole release is here) On a sunny, mild Sunday afternoon last spring, demand for electricity from the region’s power grid fell to the lowest level ever seen by ISO New England’s system operators. May 1 was a day for the record books,...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
When bitcoin and blockchain appeared on the scene I, like a lot of non-technical people, was fascinated. That fascination translated into positive reporting – to be honest, “naive” isn’t too strong a word for some of my stories – about...